Yes, I have to write a perl script to do so - which I am not adept at. I am familiar with FTP and SCP and can type that stuff by hand on the command line, but I'd like to just run a perl script that does all that.
1. Access server X.
2. Locate new files within X:/
3. Copy/ftp/download new file(s) to my dir
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It all depends how you access the other machine. The simplest
would be an NFS mount, and the use of find,
with the -exec option.
Another simple way would be the use of rsync,
which produces a list of files it downloads. You can read
the output of rsync in a pipe, and then run
each Java program.
FTP would be harder. You'd have to browse the directory
tree yourself, checking all time stamps, and downloading
the files you are interested in, which you then can run
as Java programs.
HTTP would even be harder, because it's often not possible
to browse, or to get timestamps.
UUCP could be an option as well. Just execute remote commands,
wait for the results to come back, decide what you want to
have, send more remote commands (to pack a file), fetch it,
unpack, execute Java.
cpio could of course be an option as well. Or
mail. Or samba. Or sneakernet.
-- Abigail
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